Authorities are keeping a tight lid on the UK’s boiling cauldron;  Sweden is not as successful, as a sixth night of rioting spreads beyond suburban Stockholm;  A nuclear experiment goes bad in Japan, exposing dozens of scientists to radiation.  That and more in our zany world:

As many as 2 thousand far-rightists marched in Northern England, protesting the gruesome murder of a British Soldier by two men claiming an Islamist motive.  The English Defense League (EDL), criticized by many as a racist and neo-fascist organization, called the march; However it did not expect more than a few hundred people to attend.  There were a few skirmishes with Anti-racists, but Newcastle police said the day had passed off without major incident.

A lot has been written about the Cub Scout mum who talked to the attackers and calmed them before police showed up.  Not everyone in the UK is responding as well.  Police across England are busy charging people for violating laws barring religious and ethnic hate speech as the reactionary and inarticulate from all walks of life spout off on the murder of the Soldier in Woolwich.  Incidents range from an 85-year old granny shouting abuse as a Mosque in Gillingham, Kent to a 19-year old Muslim lad from Woking, Surrey making threatening comments on the Internet. Detective Inspector Ed Yaxley of Avon and Somerset Police said, “People should stop and think about what they say on social media before making statements as the consequences could be serious.”

MI5 reportedly wanted to recruit one of the men who wound up allegedly murdering Drummer Lee Rigby on a South-East London Street last week.  According to a friend, Michael Adebolajo had been complaining that authorities were “bugging him” six months before the murder.  Adebolajo is the man with blood-drenched hands and a meat cleaver seen on video complaining about western actions in “his” Muslim lands (even though he was born in London and raised a Christian).

Rioting in Sweden has gone on for a sixth night and has spread beyond Stockholm.  It started when police shot and killed an elderly man who threatened them with a machete.  Upset immigrant youths followed with several nights of rock throwing, window bashing, and arson attacks on cars and buildings.  It’s caused a lot of hand-wringing in Sweden:  People are variously assigning blame to poor parenting, the growing income gap, unemployment, or cultural differences.

Australia, if the worst thing you have to worry about is a 14-year old saying dumb stuff at a Footy match, count your blessings and enjoy the weekend.  We’ll get it all right tomorrow.

French troops began their planned pullout from Mali, four months after going to that part of Africa to help root out Islamic rebels.  The plan is to gradually give control to the Malian army and a UN peacekeeping force, which will deploy in July ahead of planned nationwide elections.

IN EASTERN PAKISTAN, sixteen children and their teacher burned to death in a mini-bus that had been rigged to operate on both natural gas and petrol.  The gas cylinder began leaking and was ignited by frayed and short circuiting wiring.  The driver fled after the fire.  A lot of vehicles in Pakistan are modified to use gas instead of petrol, but there’s not a lot of regulation to ensure the safety of occupants, and many people are killed every year by gas cylinder explosions.

Two freight trains collided in rural Missouri, causing derailment that knocked out a pillar that held up a highway over the tracks.  The bridge came down, and seven people are hurt.  This is the second bridge collapse in America in just a few days, and it highlights worries that the US infrastructure is crumbling from lack of investment by the Government.

The Idiot Mayor of Osaka, Japan has scheduled a news conference for Monday in which he is expected to apologize for saying that United States troops station in Okinawa should use prostitutes as a way to avoid committing sex offenses, thus managing to offend women, Okinawa and the United States in one sentence.  Toru Hashimoto is not expected to apologize for saying that it was necessary for saying it was necessary for Imperial Japan force thousands of Korean, Chinese, and Filipina women to become “comfort women” for its own troops in World War II.

Also in Japan, six researchers were exposed to radiation when an experiment went awry at a Japanese nuclear energy research north of Tokyo.  As many as 24 more might have suffered internal radiation as well.  An alarm went off at the Hadron Experimental Facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) in Tokai.  The leader of the experiment ignored it and restarted the experiment.